Sensitivity analysis to guide population recovery: Prairie-chickens as an example

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 302-312

  Wisdom, Michael J ^a,c   Mills, L Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c Pacific Northwest Research Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Brood survival; Elasticity; Greater prairie chicken; Life stage; Matrix population model; Nest success; Population recovery; Rate of increase; Sensitivity analysis; Tympanuchus cupido

Indexed keywords

CUPIDO; GALLUS GALLUS; TYMPANUCHUS; TYMPANUCHUS CUPIDO; TYMPANUCHUS CUPIDO PINNATUS;

BROOD SURVIVAL; GREATER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN; MODELLING; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION RECOVERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030619061     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3802585     Document Type: Article

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